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Or 4227

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032-003375161
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Or 4227
Title:
Bible
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
279 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4227 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1300
End Date:
1399
Date Range:
1300-1399
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Bernard Alexander Christian Quaritch
TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 4227

Bible

Contents

The Bible with masorah magna and parva, with masoretic lists at the beginning and at the end of the manuscript.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-279r
Title: Tana"kh
Title: תנ"ך

Folios 1r-3v contain a masoretic text in Ashkenazi semi-cursive hand.

Folios 5v-271v: contain the Hebrew Bible in Ashkenazi square script. Text provided with full masoretic vocalization and accents, accompanied by the masorah magna and parva. The masorah magna occupies two lines at the top of the page and three or four at the bottom of the page. The number of verses is given only after some of the books. The number of Psalms is 170 (Ps. 119 being divided into 22 parts).

Pentateuch: 5v-72r.

Prophets: 72v-201v.

Hagiographa: 202r-271v.

Folios199v - 201r contain masoretic text in Ashkenazi semi-cursive, regarding differences between the Eastern and Western recensions in the books of Hagiographa, including the number of verses of the same book in each recension, the order of the books and pericopes.

Folios 272r-279r: contain masoretic lists concerning the letters of the alphabet, vowels and accents; the order of books and chapters.

See [Tahan_2007] 46-47.

A sketch of candlestick. f. 4r

Carmina figurata. f. 198v

Texts within an architectural frame. f. 199r, 200r, 200v

ff. 1r-3v
Title: Masoretic list
ff. 5v-23r
Title: Genesis
ff. 23r-37r
Title: Exodus
ff. 37r-46v
Title: Leviticus
ff. 46v-60v
Title: Numbers
ff. 60v-72r
Title: Deuteronomy
ff. 72v-81r
Title: Joshua
ff. 81r-89r
Title: Judges
ff. 89r-108v
Title: Samuel
ff. 108v-131v
Title: Kings
ff. 131v-152r
Title: Jeremiah
ff. 152r-169v
Title: Exekiel
ff. 169v-185r
Title: Isaiah
ff. 185r-187r
Title: Hosea
ff. 187r-188r
Title: Joel
ff. 188r-190r
Title: Amos
ff. 190r-190r
Title: Obadiah
ff. 190r-191r
Title: Jonah
ff. 191r-192r
Title: Micah
ff. 192r-192v
Title: Nahum
ff. 192v-193r
Title: Habakuk
ff. 193v-194r
Title: Zephaniah
ff. 194r-194v
Title: Haggai
ff. 194v-197v
Title: Zechariah
ff. 197v-198v
Title: Malachi
ff. 199v-201v
Title: Masoretic lists relating to Hagiographa
ff. 202r-203r
Title: Ruth
ff. 203r-221r
Title: Psalms
ff. 221r-227v
Title: Job
ff. 227v-233v
Title: Proverbs
ff. 233v-135v
Title: Ecclesiastes
ff. 235v-136v
Title: Song of Songs
ff. 236v-238r
Title: Lamentations
ff. 238r-240v
Title: Esther
ff. 240v-245r
Title: Daniel
ff. 245r-252r
Title: Ezra
ff. 252r-272r
Title: Chronicles
ff. 272r-279r
Title: Masoretic list.

Physical Description

Vellum codex of 14th century.
Form: codex
Material: parchment
Support:
Extent: 279 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 265 × 185 mm.
Dimensions (written): 155/160 × 110/115 mm.
Foliation:

Hebrew foliation starts on folio 6, ends on folio 271.

279 folios (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves and a parchment flyleaf at the end).

Collation

36 quires: i3, ii8, iii8, iv8, v8, vi8, vii8, viii8, ix12-1, x8, xi8, xii8, xiii8, xiv8, xv8, xvi8, xvii8, xviii8, xix8, xx8, xxi8, xxii8, xxiii8, xxiv8, xxv8, xxvi2, xxvii8, xxviii8, xxix8, xxx8, xxxi8, xxxii8, xxxiii8, xxxiv8, xxxv8, xxxvi6.

There is confusion in the collation due to a later re-binding: folio 2-3 (maybe folio 1 as well) were initially at the end of the codex as the earlier pencil foliation and quire numbering with Roman numbers demonstrate.

Quires marked by catchwords, often decorated, in some cases cut away in the trimming.

Edges colored red.

Layout

Columns:3

Ruled lines: 45

Written lines: 44

Uniform layout.

Pricking and ruling are often visible.

Hand(s)

Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script (probably French) of 14th century.

Binding

BM in-house.

Spine: 'Hebrew Bible. Brit. Mus. Oriental 4227.'

History

Origin: 1300-1399 14th century France?

Provenance and Acquisition

Purchased by the British Museum from Quaritch in March1891, folio 279v; probablyBernard Alexander Christian Quaritch (b. 1819, d. 1899), bookseller and publisher. Erased inscriptions (presumable in Latin letters), folio 3v (in the lower margin), 5r (upper part).

1891-03

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_4227 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 58.

Bibliography

    [Tahan_2007] Ilana Tahan. 'Hebrew Manuscripts : The Power of Script and Image / Ilana Tahan.'London: British Library, 2007.

Funding of Cataloguing

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